Hypnotic Trips combine hiking, hypnosis and nature to release anxiety and other unwanted emotions. I am Valerie Grimes, the creator of Hypnotic Trips on You Tube.
This trip happens at The Wichita Mountains near Lawton, Oklahoma where it snowed the night before. I wasn’t expecting the snow and so I was not thinking right that morning when I saw it.
Maybe you can relate to this story:
I was on a mission. We drove to Lawton to get footage for this show and the snow was ruining it. I am tellin’ ya…I get thrown off just like the rest of you..
Trying to roll with it, but in the back of my mind the snow was really throwing off what MY PRECONCEIVED idea about what this hypnotic trip was about. And what is funny is the show was already about Positive Thinking. Ha! Talk about being caught off guard.
There was a moment mid-day when I was following Bryan’s footprints in the snow as he, with the excitement of a child, ascended the snowy mounds that I let myself get a little excited about the snow. Then he talked me into going to Elk Trail and as we walked through the icy wonder to the trailhead I realized there was not another soul around, I melted. And I thought about the Beatitude:
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.
The Beatitudes
So what does that have to do with Right Thinking? Well, righteousness as taught by Jesus means Right Thinking. It is about making whatever thought you want be something you crave…hungering and thirsting after a thought. In other words, you WANT it really really badly.
As you continue to listen to this story, please keep in mind that a thought can be positive or negative.
Whatever motivation you have is producing your automatic thinking. Motivation has to do with your desire, your hunger and thirst for what you want. And sometimes we can have an unconscious motivation for a negative thought. Disappointment can cause us to dwell on the thought we didn’t intend. It hits us when we are caught off guard or caught up on something. That is how a negative thought sneaks in and once in, it persists because that is all it can do, until a better thought takes its place.
That is why this beatitude is so hard to do. We can strive to think right (positive) thoughts but if there is a strong motivating factor for keeping us stuck it is very hard to make that change. This may make us feel weak minded and want to give up on ourselves. But please don’t do that.
The secret is to change the motivation and then we can change our thinking…it started to happen to me when I was awestruck by the peaceful perfection all around me. I got caught off guard my a positive experience and that was a better emotion and therefore took the place of the past negative motivating factor.
If you want to control your circumstances for harmony and happiness you must first control your thoughts for harmony and happiness, and then outer things will follow. We can not think one thing and produce another this would be contrary to the Law of the Universe.
Emmet Fox-Sermon on the Mount
Habits of thinking are the most difficult habits to break and can send us into self condemnation which produces more trouble. But, if you are truly wholehearted in our efforts that is to say that we are really hungering and thirsting for righteousness, then, you shall be surely be filled.